Cheap motels and a hot plate
Subtitle: an economist's travelogue
By: Michael D. Yates.
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781583671436; 9781583671443
Subjects: Equality -- United States -- History -- 21st century; Economists -- Travel -- United States -- Anecdotes; United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-; United States -- Environmental conditions -- History -- 21st century; United States -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes.
Other titles: Economist's travelogue
Description: Retiring from 32 years as a professor of economics, the author and his wife sell most of their possessions and travel the United States. This is an account of their adventures and an examination of work and inequality , race and class, alienation and environmental degradation in the small towns and big cities of the contemporary United States.
Notes: Map on endpaper.

Includes bibliographical references and index.